Changes...
Love it or hate it- I've determined that the little things in life determine my mood. The smallest things can make me the happiest person (a kind gesture from a friend, the feeling of sunlight or raindrops on your face) and the smallest things can royally piss me the f*#k off (annoying drivers on campus drive, people being idiots in lab).
So what does this have to do with change? Well, when websites change their format/searching functions/layout, etc it bothers me. Usually just the act of change is upsetting at first. Once I get used to the changes I'm OK, but I always have a hard time adjusting (not just with websites, changes in life are the same).
What pisses me off though is when things change FOR THE WORSE. Sure, your website LOOKS ok. But it takes twice as long to do something now than it did before. It drives me crazy when websites become slower, more inefficient, less intuitive and increasingly frustrating. Maybe its my computer getting old and not being able to handle all the fancy changes. Either way, its annoying, and it pisses me off.
That was my mini-rant for the day. But what's been on my mind this past week is just changes in general. Life is in a serious period of flux right now. Well, not RIGHT now, but in 8 months I'll be done with grad school. Holy crap! I thought I had more time than that. Don't get me wrong, its good I'll be done sooner than expected. But the unexpectedness of the timing is freaking me out. I need to finish up some experiments, write up this paper for publication, address the comments we get from the reviewers of our paper and do more experiments or re-submit the paper to another journal (depending on the comments we get), write up my 100 pg+ thesis, figure out my passion in life and try to find a job that can fulfill at least a fraction of that, be a bridesmaid in my cousins wedding and give my thesis defense: all before June 5th.
And people always talk about the hell that is the end of grad school. I know myself all too well- I procrastinate until my head is going to explode with all I need to do. Then I get shit done. But to operate like that with what I will be facing could be disastrous for my mental health. So I've got to scrap what I've been doing all my life and really be more efficient. Hmmmm, that sounds like change. I don't like change :)
So what does this have to do with change? Well, when websites change their format/searching functions/layout, etc it bothers me. Usually just the act of change is upsetting at first. Once I get used to the changes I'm OK, but I always have a hard time adjusting (not just with websites, changes in life are the same).
What pisses me off though is when things change FOR THE WORSE. Sure, your website LOOKS ok. But it takes twice as long to do something now than it did before. It drives me crazy when websites become slower, more inefficient, less intuitive and increasingly frustrating. Maybe its my computer getting old and not being able to handle all the fancy changes. Either way, its annoying, and it pisses me off.
That was my mini-rant for the day. But what's been on my mind this past week is just changes in general. Life is in a serious period of flux right now. Well, not RIGHT now, but in 8 months I'll be done with grad school. Holy crap! I thought I had more time than that. Don't get me wrong, its good I'll be done sooner than expected. But the unexpectedness of the timing is freaking me out. I need to finish up some experiments, write up this paper for publication, address the comments we get from the reviewers of our paper and do more experiments or re-submit the paper to another journal (depending on the comments we get), write up my 100 pg+ thesis, figure out my passion in life and try to find a job that can fulfill at least a fraction of that, be a bridesmaid in my cousins wedding and give my thesis defense: all before June 5th.
And people always talk about the hell that is the end of grad school. I know myself all too well- I procrastinate until my head is going to explode with all I need to do. Then I get shit done. But to operate like that with what I will be facing could be disastrous for my mental health. So I've got to scrap what I've been doing all my life and really be more efficient. Hmmmm, that sounds like change. I don't like change :)